Quotes About Art

The discipline as a dancer carried over into my life.

Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.

I had to learn Odissi dance and it is a very difficult discipline.

People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to the bagginess of novel writing, it almost feels like a martial art.

I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open to reality.

In theatre there is a certain discipline that you have to follow, and you have to be experienced to be performing in front of a live audience. It is satisfying to me.

To be free on stage, you need to have been disciplined.

To me, discomfort is a gift in the films that I'm making.

Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

I'm the son of a doctor, and the key to working in the art world is to have boundaries of discretion.

I believe that we will elevate and differentiate the discourse of cinema the more we discuss image creation in specific terms.

The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.

I'm happy Lootera has sparked off a discussion.

The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.

I know writers, and they seem to be the most disgruntled part of the art world.

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

We're all trying so hard to be beautiful, but the people in 'Kuso' are trying so hard to be disgusting.

There are 36 ways to tell this story. And all of them are disgusting.

I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.

I think a lot of the time, comic art is dismissed as... not art, and comic writing is dismissed as not literature.

I never thought I'd be up against Salvador Dali and Roy Disney.

I used to take my little Disney figurines and turn them into stop-motion animation.

My work is always on display, and my life is always on display when I make my work.